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With !Clocutioi\ Lessons No. 1 



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EMMA DUNNING BANKS, Actress, Public Reader, Teacher, Author of "Banks's 

Recitations with Lesson-Talks." 
BERTHA L. COLBURN, Teacher, Author of "Graded Physical Exercises." 
ANNA D. COOPER, Teacher, Public Reader, Director of Poses in the Pantomimes, 

"Star-Spangled Banner," ard "The Listening Ear of Night." 
ANNA RANDALL-DIEHL, Teacher, Public Reader, Author of "Elocutionary 

Studies," etc. 
CRACK B. FAXON, Teacher, Public Reader, Formerly an Editor of "Werner's 

Magazine." 
HENRY GAINES HAWN, Teacher, Author, President of the National Association of 

Elocutionists. 
ERNEST LEGOUVE, of the French Academy, Eminent Playwright and Dramatic 

Teacher. 
J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN, Eminent English Elocutionist. 
SAIDEE V. MILNE, Teacher, Public Reader, Author. 
AMELIA RING MORGENROTH, Teacher, Director of Entertainments at Educational 

Alliance. 
E. V. SHERIDAN, Actress, Teacher of Dramatic Art, Author, Playwright. 
HERMANN VEZIN, the Eminent London Teacher of Elocution. 

ELISE WEST, Teacher, Public Reader, Formerly an Editor of "Werner's Magazifie." 
CORA W. WHEELER, Teacher, Author, Formerly First Vice-President of the 

National Association of Elocutionists. 

THESE CONTR.IBUTOR.S REPRESENT ALL THE LEADING 

CONTEMPORANEOUS SCHOOLS OR. SYSTEMS OF 

ELOCUTION AND PHYSICAL CULTURE 

Following is a list of selections, which are exhaustively analyzed, and on 
which elaborate lesson-talks are given, by the above-named eminent teachers: 



American Flag.— J. R. Drake. 

Bishop and the Caterpillar.— M. E. Manners. 

Brier-Rose. — H. H. Boyesen. 

Captor Captive (from "Ingomar"). 

Como,— J. Miller. 

Cupe's Courtship.— J. U- Lloyd. 

Dog's Funeral.— S. V. Milne. 

Higher Culture in Dixie.— D. Dix. 

How He Saved St. Michael's.— M. A. P. 
Stansbury. 

How to Prepare a Selection for Public 
Rendering.— C. M. Wheeler. 

Jaffar.— L. Hunt. 

Julius Caesar, Act I., Scene I.— W. Shake- 
speare. 

King Richard's Dream.— W. Shakespeare. 

Kitty Clive.-F. F. Moore. 

Legend of the Organ-Builder. T. C. R. Dorr. 

Light on Deadman's Bar.— E. E. Rexford. 

Little Christel.-M. F. Bradley. 



Little Hugo. 

Order for a Picture.— A. Cary. 

Organist.— A. Lampman. 

Parthenia, a Hostage (from "Ingomar"). 

Peggy's Serpulae.— L. C. Austin. 

Pied Piper of Hamelin. — R. Browning. 

Rejected Suitor (from "Ingomar"). 

Rivals. — B. Chandler. 

Savage Conquered (from "Ingomar"). 

Shaker Romance.— C. S. Haight. 

Sheltered.— S. O. Jewett. 

Sioux Chief's Daughter. — J. Miller. 

Soul of the Violin. -M. M. Merrill. 

Study of Fables. — E. Legouve. 

Tom's Little Star.— F. Foster. 

Two Souls with but a Single Thought (from 

"Ingomar"). 
White Lily.— M. L. Wright. 
Wooing Scene from "King Henry V-" — W. 

Shakespeare. 



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Deacon Slocum's 

Presence of Mind 

MONOLOGUE FOR A WOMAN 

BY PAULINE PHELPS 



Copyright, /Q04. by Edgar S. IVerner 



Deacon Slocum is a likely man, and he's been payin' 
me attention for nigh twenty year — time enough to git 
acquainted, goodness knows! An' it's my opinion we'd 
have been married an' settled long ago if it hadn't been 
that — well, he's a believer in men's rights and I'm a 
believer in women's, and he always has to switch off just 
at the proposin' point, and say somethin' about the weaker 
sex needin' husbands to look after 'em. And then I flare 
up, and say I'm acquainted w^ith one of the weaker sex 
that don't, and the next thing I know^ I'll be lookin' out of 
the window at the back of his head goin' down the road. 
Now, take it last Thursday night, he dropped in unexpected 
like from the grocer's, where he'd been to buy some 
crackers an' cheese for his supper — he has a dreadful time 
over indigestion, poor man, with no one to do his cookin' 
for him — and, says he, a lielpin' himself to a chair: 

''Luranny, I've b'en thinkin' what the bible says about 
it's not bein' good lor man to live alone. There's a heap 
of sense in them words, Luranny." 

"Yes," says I, "They sound pretty convincin'." 

"Man and woman was intended for companion," says 
he, a-hitchin' closer, and puttin' his arm sort of — well — 
sort of natural like round the back of my chair. 



4 DEACON SLOCUM S PRESENCE OF MIND 

'^Specially when they've been acquainted a long spell," 
says I, a-hitchin' my chair up a little, too, jest to be 
neighborly. 

"Woman without a helpmate is a poor, no-account, 
pitiable creature," says he. "The first on 'em wan't sent 
into the world until the Lord had a man standin' by an' 
reconciled to takin' her off His hands." 

"Yes," says I, "He saw Adam was makin' such an 
awful fizzle try in' to get along by himself, He took pity on 
him, and created Eve to help him out." 

"The trouble with women is, they ain't calm an' cool 
an' collected," says he, payin' no attention to my words. 
"Supposin' they was to the head of our Government, an' 
supposin' our Ship of State got into a tight place an' there 
wan't but one chance in a hundred of gittin' her out, an' 
not a minute to decide it; would a woman have the presence 
of mind to take that hundredth chance? No, Sir!" 

"Deacon Slocum," say I, "if the women was runnin' 
this Ship of State, do you suppose they'd be fools enough 
to let her get into a place where there wan't but one chance 
in a hundred of her gettin' out? No, Sir! An' I've thought 
all along you men was a-sendin' this country to de- 
struction, and now I know it." 

"Man's presence of mind in emergencies," says he. 

"Woman's good commonsense every day in the week," 
says I. 

"Good-night," says he. 

"Good riddance," says I. An' there was another time 
he didn't propose. 

The Women's Sewing Society met to our house the 
next day to sew for the heathen, and I had my time pretty 
well occupied gettin' tea for 'em. They're a real woi^thy 



DEACON SLOCUAPS PRESENCE OF MIND 5 

society — they et up sixty-three biscuits, and five loaves of 
cake and eight pies and a pan of baked beans and four 
jars of best quince preserves and two pounds of butter and 
a quart of pickles, and basted the hem down to two 
gingham aprons and put together a calico tea-gown, with 
the sleeves wrong side to. An' I felt real sorry for the 
woman agoin' to wear it; for, while the poor thing was a 
lookin' forward hopeful like to the future, in them sleeves 
she'd feel like her arms was a reachin' back after a dead 
and gone past, that most likely she'd rather forget. 

Some of the men folks dropped in after tea to chat 
awhile and beau their wives home,, and the .Deacon he 
dropped in too, but he wan't in a pleasant frame of mind. 
What I'd said to him the day before was still ranklin', and 
he begin on't again as soon as he'd got sit down. 

' 'The more I think about woman tryin' to take her 
place in history the equal of man, the more I know she 
can't do it. She's got to stick to her spere," says he, 
brandishing a fork, an' glarin' fiercely at the assembled 
company. "She's well enough at some things likecookin' 
and preserviu'," he went on, helpin' himself to a left-over 
biscuit an' some goose-berry jam. ''But you just wait till 
an emergency comes along, and you'll see which is the 
superior sex a-manifestin' the highest type of presence of 
mind." And he nodded his head so forcible to emphasize 
his words, that his specs flew off and lit in the middle of 
the butter. 

'Twas jest as I was pickin' 'em out that Petunia 
Bilkins give an awful shriek, and pointed down the road. 

"Look! there's a fire," cried she, and the whole 
society arose and stuck it's head out of the window as one 
man, false fronts, pompydores, bald spots, and all. 

"Where? Which way? How d'you know it ? Why, 
it's the new schoolhouse!" cried they. 



6 DEACON SLOCUM'S PRESENCE OF MIND 

"The schoolhouse afire! '-yells the Deacon, dancin' 
up an' down like a jumpin'-jack. Some of you men go 
and ring the meetin'- house bell and alarm the town. 
Save it! Help.' Murder." 

''What's the use?" says I, "there's a dozen of you 
here, an' buckets an' water handy." 

"Don't interfere, woman!" roars the Deacon, "that 
schoolhouse a burnin' is a national calamity, and the town 
must be aroused. James Ebenezer, go and rouse it. 
Some of the rest of you fly around and get a ladder. 
We've got to climb up to that roof." 

' 'What's the matter with goin' up the stairs? They're 
finished!" says I. 

''The ladder ain't long enough, we'll need barrels and 
boxes to piece em out," yells he, a disappearin' down the 
cellar- way, and comin' up agin staggerin' under the weight 
of my molasses hogshead. 

"L eacon," shouted I in his ear, a-grabbin' him by the 
coat-tails, "the head of that barrel ain't strong, and any- 
how you don't need it. You can go up the stairs on the 
inside.'' 

'^Inside!" snorted the Deacon, "Avhat in thunder do 
we want to go up on the inside for, when the fire's on the 
outside. It's on the roof . " And down the road goes the 
whole pack of 'em, boxes, barrels, ladders, an' all, a kick- 
in' the dust up like a regiment. And I didn't say no more, 
but beckoned quiet like to three or four of the women, an' 
while the men was a pilin' barrels and boxes up agin' the 
north side of the schoolhouse, we went around to the south 
door an' opened it, an' filled the fire-buckets. We could 
hear the Deacon givin' commands as we carried the water 
up the stairs. 

"Now, then," says he, 'T'm runnin' the fire. Do as 



DEACON SLOCUM'S PRESENCE OE MIND 7 

I say. Hand up that ladder, and I'll stand on this barrel 
here an' steady it/' 

"Good land sakes!" gasped I. ^^I told him that barrel 
was not strong — " 

An' then there come a terrific crash, an' we looked 
out of the window jest in time to see it give way, an' the 
Deacon precipitated downward, an' wedged tight in half a 
barrel of best New Orleans molasses, and I jest shut my 
ears to his language, for there's some expressions I wouldn't 
want to lay uj) agin no man who is a Deacon and a 
neighbor. But by the time we reached the roof, an' 
emptied the water on part of the blaze an' danced out the 
rest — dancin's wicked, but the Lord'll forgive the kind that 
tramps out fire, I guess — we heard the Deacon's voice 
again. 

''Git another barrel! Steady that ladder! Never say 
die! Excelsior, we'll reach the burning pinnacle yet!'' 
And the next moment he rose up over the edge of the roof, 
with a hero expression on his face, and a drippin' New 
Orleans from head to foot. 

"Come on," says he, a-wavin' a bucket in the air and 
spillin' all the water out, "follow me, boys! Courage, 
we'll quench the fire — why, where is the fire?" says he. 
"Where is it gone to?" 

"I reckon it's gone visitin'," says I, "anyhow it's out. 
The inferior sex come up the stairs, while the superior one 
was a-buildin' a barricade." But I kept back the burnin' 
words I was dyin' to add about- man's presence of mind. 

That night, after I'd helped the Deacon clean the 
molasses off his clothes, he up and asked me to marry him. 



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